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Rising for the third year running, 38 million people worldwide are currently internally displaced due to conflict and violence, according to a just-released report by the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
In 2014 alone, 11 million people were newly displaced. This is equivalent...

OCHA Director of Operations, John Ging, spoke about his recent trip to Niger and Chad in the Sahel region at Tuesday’s press briefing at the UN Headquarters in New York, drawing attention to the extent of humanitarian need in two countries hit by conflict-induced displacement, pockets of chronic...

Every day, tens of Nigerians fleeing conflict in the north-east continue to arrive at the doorsteps of the capital, Abuja. Because the international aid is focused on providing assistance to communities in north-east Nigeria, these displaced families arriving in Abuja are largely dependent on the National...

The United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos travelled to Nepal this week to survey the large-scale damage caused by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the country last Saturday, killing more than 6,000 people and destroying over 160,000 houses across the country, with numbers...